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How to Connect a Security Camera to a TV

Some customers want to connect their security camera directly to a TV without recording to a CCTV DVR. These customers usually just want to display the live video feed from their CCTV camera on a TV screen without saving surveillance footage to a hard drive. This article explains several ways to do this depending on the type of camera you have and whether you are using a single camera or multiple cameras.

How to connect an analog CCTV camera to a TV< /p>

- Follow these instructions if you are using a

analog CCTV camera

(CVBS). FOR EXAMPLE. 960H resolution, D1, CIF.

How to Connect an HD Security Camera to a TV

- Follow these instructions if you are using a

HD- Over-Coax Security Camera / HD BNC

. Video format: AHD, HD-TVI, HD-CVI. Resolutions: 720p, 1080p, 3mp, 4mp, 5mp, 8mp/4K.

How to View Multiple Security Cameras on a TV

- Follow these instructions if you want to display multiple security cameras on a single TV screen using a video multiplexer. It works for analog CCTV cameras and HD security cameras.

How to View Your Security Cameras on Multiple TVs

- Follow these instructions if you want to send the video signal from one or more security cameras to multiple TVs.

If you are interested in high definition instead of analog, you may be interested in these complete TV display systems

for HD security cameras< /p>

.

Why would anyone want to use a security camera only to view live video and not record surveillance footage to a DVR?

Here are some uses that customers have told us about.

Check who is at the door of a home or business.

Provide customers with a live view of a point of interest within the business. p>

Provide an anti-theft system by displaying live video on a monitor.

Connect CCTV Camera to TV

Here is an installation diagram that shows how an analog CCTV camera can be directly connected to a TV/Monitor.

Here's how it works.

The CCTV camera's video output and power supply connected to a

prefab siamese security camera cable

. A cable cut from a

RG59 siamese cable reel

can also be used. Siamese is used in BNC security camera applications to run both video and power to/from the cameras.

As both video ends of the cable have male BNC connectors, the TV side must be converted to a male RCA connector so that it can plug into the TV's female RCA input. You can use this

BNC to RCA connector

.

The 3.1mm power jack connects directly to the DC power supply that comes with the camera and the power supply plugs into a standard 110 power outlet.

When the user wants to see the live video from the security camera, just select the video input of the RCA they used and the video will show.< /p>

Optional and explained below - If the user also wishes to hear audio on the TV, they can connect a stand-alone audio monitoring microphone to one of the RCA inputs on the TV.

Below is a list of equipment that was used in the diagram above.

Bullet CCTV Camera

Siamese CCTV cables

BNC to RCA connector

Camera power supply

Connect surveillance mic to TV audio

If you also want to hear audio monitoring in addition to the live view of the security camera on your TV, the diagram below shows a< /p>

surveillance microphone

can be connected to your TV. This option is optional.

Connecting an HD Security Camera to a TV

If you want to connect an HD security camera to a TV, you need to use a BNC to HDMI converter. This configuration applies to the following HD security cameras that use the same coaxial cable as analog CCTV cameras: AHD, HD-TVI and HD-CVI, 720p resolution at 4K.

In this installation diagram a< /p>

A 4K BNC security camera

is used. However, all these

hd security cameras

are also supported. Here's how it works.

The red line represents the coaxial cable that connects the BNC output of the camera to the BNC input of the

HDCV-3-T BNC to HDMI converter

. Just like the analog CCTV installation above, it can be a pre-made Siamese cable or a cable cut from a reel of RG59 Siamese cable.

The blue line represents the HDMI cable that connects the HDCV-3T's HDMI output to an HDMI input on the TV.

To see a live view from the camera, simply switch to this HDMI input using the TV remote.

Connect HD Security Camera to Monitor HDMI Input

In addition to analog CCTV cameras, you can now connect

HD security cameras (AHD CCTV)

to the HDMI input of a TV monitor. Watch the video below to see how it's done using a 720p security camera and

1080p

.

Watch the video above to see a demonstration of the AHD-CV7 AHD to HDMI Video Converter. Please note that CCTV Camera Pros now recommend HDCV-3-T BNC to HDMI Converter as it supports more video formats and resolutions.

How to View Multiple Security Cameras on a TV

If you want to view live video from multiple security cameras on a single TV screen, you can use a

4 channel CCTV multiplexer

. We also have

8 and 16 channel CCTV multiplexers

.

How it works

Security cameras are wired to the BNC video inputs of the

quad cctv multiplexer

using an RG59 coaxial cable. If you use a

hd security camera multiplexer

like this, you can use analog CCTV cameras and HD BNC security cameras.

The cameras are wired to the multiplexer with

pre-made RG59 jumper cables

,

prefabricated siamese cctv camera cable

, Where

.

The multiplexer (mux) has a single BNC video output. You can use another RG59 jumper to pass the video from the multiplexer to the TV.

On the TV end of the cable, the

BNC connector can be converted to an RCA male with this connector

.

The video multiplexer processor can be configured to display all 4 cameras on screen. It can also be configured in other ways, such as single-frame scrolling with delay, picture-in-picture, dual-picture, etc. You watch the video below to see some of the different screen configurations supported by a 16 channel video multiplexer.

Video Multiplexer Demo

The video above shows the 4K video output from the

VM-HD4 CCTV quad multiplexer

.

Video multiplexers

allow you to view multiple security cameras on a single screen. In the video, the multiplexer is connected to four

4K security cameras

.

How to View Your Security Camera on Multiple TVs

hdmi over ethernet kit

. Please note that we are using a CCTV multiplexer as the HDMI source in this example, however, if you only need to display a single security camera, you can also use the HDCV-3-T BNC to HDMI converter instead. of the multiplexer. p>

Here's how it works.

The red line at the bottom is a standard HDMI video cable that connects the HDMI output of the video multiplexer to the HDMI input of the HDMI over IP transmitter (TX).

The TX's RJ-45 Ethernet port is connected to one of the network switch ports.

Two HDMI receivers (RX) are connected to the same network switch and both are configured to receive the HDMI video signal from the same transmitter.

The HDMI output of each receiver is connected to a television monitor.

The multiplexer can be controlled from any television location because each receiver can transmit commands from the IR remote control to the multiplexer.

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Here are some additional articles that you may be interested in.

5 Great BNC to HDMI Converter Solutions for Security Cameras

How to View Live Video from Multiple Security Cameras on One TV

How to View Live Video from Multiple IP Cameras on an HDMI TV

How to Use Central Monitoring Software to View Security Cameras in Multiple Locations

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This article was written by

Mike Haldas

, co-founder and managing partner of

CCTV Camera Pros

. Questions regarding this article can be directed to

mike@cctvcamerapros.net

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